Masthead Venture Partners

Masthead Venture Partners was a venture capital firm based in Danvers, Massachusetts, established in 1997. The firm specialized in investing in early-stage companies within the information technology and biotechnology sectors, focusing on those with disruptive technological advantages and strong growth potential. Masthead sought out companies led by capable management teams and provided not only capital but also active support from its partners, who possessed extensive experience in high technology and healthcare. However, Masthead Venture Partners ceased its operations on June 30, 2017.

Leland Cheung

Associate

Daniel K. Flatley

Partner

Levandov, Richard W.

General Partner

52 past transactions

Centric Software

Series C in 2012
Centric Software provides a Digital Transformation Platform for the most prestigious names in fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (VIP) is a visual, fully digital collection of boards for touch-based devices like iPad, iPhone and large-scale, touch-screen televisions. Centric VIP transforms decision making and automates execution to truly collapse time to market and distance to trend. Centric’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric 8, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, business planning, quality, and collection management functionality tailored for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric SMB packages extended PLM including innovative technology and key industry learnings tailored for small businesses. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards, including the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM in 2016 and Frost & Sullivan’s Global Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM Product Differentiation Excellence Award in 2012. Red Herring named Centric to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015, and 2016.

Centric Software

Series C in 2011
Centric Software provides a Digital Transformation Platform for the most prestigious names in fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (VIP) is a visual, fully digital collection of boards for touch-based devices like iPad, iPhone and large-scale, touch-screen televisions. Centric VIP transforms decision making and automates execution to truly collapse time to market and distance to trend. Centric’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric 8, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, business planning, quality, and collection management functionality tailored for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric SMB packages extended PLM including innovative technology and key industry learnings tailored for small businesses. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards, including the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM in 2016 and Frost & Sullivan’s Global Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM Product Differentiation Excellence Award in 2012. Red Herring named Centric to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015, and 2016.

Genesis Networks

Venture Round in 2010
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Telaria

Series D in 2010
Telaria is data-driven software platform built to monetize & manage premium video inventory with the greatest speed, and control.

Genesis Networks

Debt Financing in 2010
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Genesis Networks

Debt Financing in 2009
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Genesis Networks

Debt Financing in 2009
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Genesis Networks

Venture Round in 2009
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Genesis Networks

Debt Financing in 2009
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Genesis Networks

Debt Financing in 2009
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Genesis Networks

Venture Round in 2009
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Tremor Video

Series C in 2009
Provides video advertising solutions for advertisers and agencies, and publisher partners in the United States and internationally.

Telaria

Series C in 2009
Telaria is data-driven software platform built to monetize & manage premium video inventory with the greatest speed, and control.

Sitrion

Series F in 2009
Sitrion provides award-winning solutions for the digital workplace, making work better for working people every day. Our mobile solutions boost productivity and allow people to be more empowered, engaged, and successful. The Sitrion ONE employee app extends work directly to people’s mobile devices and unifies communications, processes, and information from business ecosystems like Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. We make work better for leading organizations, like Microsoft, Enterprise Holdings, Airbus, Fujitsu, HealthSouth, Fortune Brands, Restaurant Brands, BearingPoint and many others. Today, more than 6 million people benefit from our solutions.

Chumby

Series B in 2008
Chumby Industries closed its doors in December 2011, and laid off all of its employees. Since then, the service has been maintained by a small group of volunteers, and paid for by a succession of companies. The volunteers were notified that the funding would cease at the end of February, 2013, with the prospect of the devices being rendered completely useless. Chumby is an open-source hardware device that allows owners to connect wirelessly to the Chumby network and add different content widgets and applications as they become available through Chumby's developer network. Additionally, users can modify the hardware arrangements to turn their Chumby into a universal remote control or other functions their imagination and intellect allows for. The device is about the size of a football and comes preloaded with an LCD screen, speakers, USB ports, and memory and storage. Some examples of widgets and uses for the Chumby are as music players for your mp3/mp4a libraries, viewers for Flickr and Facebook photos, RSS readers, and eBay auction trackers. A insider's release is currently available as of December 2007, with an official launch expected at some point in early 2008.

Tizor Systems

Series C in 2008
Tizor Systems, Inc. provides enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for monitoring and reporting data activity in the data center, databases, file servers, and mainframe applications. It offers Mantra, a network-based data auditing and protection solution that enables compliance assurance, data security, and privacy by providing data auditing, data discovery, audit reporting, theft detection, real-time alerting, and data protection. The company also offers support, education, and consulting services. Tizor Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Liquid Machines

Series D in 2008
Liquid Machines' Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) software provides control of electronic corporate assets throughout the information lifecycle, making users more efficient and reducing the risk of compliance violations and intellectual property leakage. Liquid Machines’ Enterprise Rights Management solutions enable organizations to persistently control access and usage of electronic information regardless of where it exists without changing the way users work.

Centric Software

Series B in 2008
Centric Software provides a Digital Transformation Platform for the most prestigious names in fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (VIP) is a visual, fully digital collection of boards for touch-based devices like iPad, iPhone and large-scale, touch-screen televisions. Centric VIP transforms decision making and automates execution to truly collapse time to market and distance to trend. Centric’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric 8, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, business planning, quality, and collection management functionality tailored for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric SMB packages extended PLM including innovative technology and key industry learnings tailored for small businesses. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards, including the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM in 2016 and Frost & Sullivan’s Global Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM Product Differentiation Excellence Award in 2012. Red Herring named Centric to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015, and 2016.

Telaria

Series B in 2008
Telaria is data-driven software platform built to monetize & manage premium video inventory with the greatest speed, and control.

Sitrion

Series E in 2007
Sitrion provides award-winning solutions for the digital workplace, making work better for working people every day. Our mobile solutions boost productivity and allow people to be more empowered, engaged, and successful. The Sitrion ONE employee app extends work directly to people’s mobile devices and unifies communications, processes, and information from business ecosystems like Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. We make work better for leading organizations, like Microsoft, Enterprise Holdings, Airbus, Fujitsu, HealthSouth, Fortune Brands, Restaurant Brands, BearingPoint and many others. Today, more than 6 million people benefit from our solutions.

Foneshow

Series A in 2007
Foneshow has built a telephony-based distribution platform for short-form audio (primarily news/talk/sports radio programming). The platform leverages the cellular telephone network and enables users to subscribe to, access, publish, share, and consume short-form audio programming immediately from virtually any cell phone. The system features the very rapid propagation of programming from the creator to the consumer. Patents are pending. Foneshow was founded in late August of 2006 on Ballston Beach in Truro, Massachusetts by Erik Schwartz and Nic Wolff, two technology industry veterans and lifelong friends. Nic and Erik had been kicking some of the ideas around for a while, wondering why they never listened to podcasts. In late summer 2006 they developed the ideas that would become Foneshow. They started coding in September of 2006 with alpha launching later in September. The foneshow.com domain was registered in October 2006. The company was organized as a Delaware LLC in November of 2006. In August of 2007 Foneshow closed a series A venture capital round with CEI Community Ventures, Masthead Venture Partners, and Small Enterprise Growth Fund of Maine.

EXPO

Series B in 2007
ExpoTV is a video-based social network for e-commerce, specifically tailored to put the consumer in control. ExpoTV.com offers their community a way to connect, share and demonstrate products they are passionate about with other consumers. ExpoTV is YouTube meets the Consumer Grapevine. Covering a broad range of categories from consumer electronics and entertainment products like digital cameras, computers, video games and movies to consumer packaged goods, baby toys, gear and other staff.

Intercasting

Series B in 2007
Intercasting is a mobile social networking company. Through its flagship ANTHEM 2.0 platform, wireless carriers and device manufacturers can add instant messaging, email, and social networking to their offerings. Founded in 2004, Intercasting was one of the first companies to deploy a carrier-grade mobile blogging and social networking application in North America with Rabble.

Tacoda

Series D in 2007
New York-based Tacoda is the worlds' largest provider of behaviorally targeted online advertising services. Through TACODA Audience Networks™, brand advertisers can reach their target audiences on premium sites at substantial scale, and do it simply and cost-effectively while generating powerful, actionable audience insights. By delivering relevant messages to more than 130 million unique users across over 3,000 individual national, regional and vertical websites, TACODA simplifies behaviorally targeted buys for brand advertisers. Virtually every top 50 online advertiser has run campaigns on TACODA-enabled websites.

EXPO

Series A in 2006
ExpoTV is a video-based social network for e-commerce, specifically tailored to put the consumer in control. ExpoTV.com offers their community a way to connect, share and demonstrate products they are passionate about with other consumers. ExpoTV is YouTube meets the Consumer Grapevine. Covering a broad range of categories from consumer electronics and entertainment products like digital cameras, computers, video games and movies to consumer packaged goods, baby toys, gear and other staff.

Scanbuy

Series B in 2006
Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns. The company’s mobile engagement platform provides tools to track the performance of campaigns with various features, including mobile website builder, surveys, mobile web pages, specialized branding, designer QR codes, and many others. It offers mVision Insights, a tool that provides clients with access to marketing engagement activities; mPromo, a mobile offer service that helps clients bring in new businesses; mTargeting, a solution that organizes customers into neat groups with common interests; mPackaging that allows clients to convert the UPC or EAN barcode on various packages; and software development tools. Scanbuy’s mobile engagement suite empowers brands, retailers, and marketers to create, manage, and deliver personalized tailored experiences directly to consumer smartphones; and platform enables the delivery of coupons, product information, videos, websites, social networking, surveys, e-commerce, and more. It offers its applications for Android and iOS devices. Scanbuy was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Chumby

Series A in 2006
Chumby Industries closed its doors in December 2011, and laid off all of its employees. Since then, the service has been maintained by a small group of volunteers, and paid for by a succession of companies. The volunteers were notified that the funding would cease at the end of February, 2013, with the prospect of the devices being rendered completely useless. Chumby is an open-source hardware device that allows owners to connect wirelessly to the Chumby network and add different content widgets and applications as they become available through Chumby's developer network. Additionally, users can modify the hardware arrangements to turn their Chumby into a universal remote control or other functions their imagination and intellect allows for. The device is about the size of a football and comes preloaded with an LCD screen, speakers, USB ports, and memory and storage. Some examples of widgets and uses for the Chumby are as music players for your mp3/mp4a libraries, viewers for Flickr and Facebook photos, RSS readers, and eBay auction trackers. A insider's release is currently available as of December 2007, with an official launch expected at some point in early 2008.

Genesis Networks

Series B in 2006
As the first company ever to offer guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for Video over Internet Protocol (IP) technology, Genesis Networks, as our name connotes, has always been dedicated to firsts. Since launching our innovative network services in January 2003, we’ve provided next generation, end-to-end video transmission solutions to many of the world’s Tier 1 broadcasters ever since. Today, Genesis Networks provides broadcasters, cable networks, production companies and corporations with extremely high-quality customized global video transmission services that are reliable, flexible and affordable. With over 200 locations worldwide, and growing, the Genesis Networks platform offers many advantages for a broad variety of applications. The company’s Network Operations Center in Manhattan maintains the health and standards of the global network, while the Genesis Networks proprietary software system, IRIS, gives clients network monitoring, scheduling and control capabilities remotely and in real-time.

Nexaweb Inc.

Series B in 2006
Nexaweb develops software that helps companies modernize existing enterprise applications and move them to the Web. Nexaweb software is designed to address three critical issues facing companies today. These are: 1. the high cost of maintaining an application portfolio that is aging and may have tens or hundreds of applications that have redundancies or bad code picked up throughout the years; 2. The decreasing number of IT professionals that have expertise in more traditional applications such as PowerBuilder, Oracle Forms or Visual Basic. These pros have either retired or moved on to other companies and didn't leave a history of the code behind. 3. The growing interest in updating existing applications and bridging the old with the newer technologies such as Nexacro Platform.

Tremor Network

Series A in 2006
Tremor Network provides advertisers with in-banner and in-stream video advertising opportunities on 300 top-tier publisher sites with a combined 70 million unique visitors per month. Tremor provides publishers with a full suite of products and services to monetize streaming video and maximize ROI. Tremor's full service solutions provide the necessary tools for advertisers and publishers to utilize online video advertising as a powerful interactive medium.

Liquid Machines

Series C in 2006
Liquid Machines' Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) software provides control of electronic corporate assets throughout the information lifecycle, making users more efficient and reducing the risk of compliance violations and intellectual property leakage. Liquid Machines’ Enterprise Rights Management solutions enable organizations to persistently control access and usage of electronic information regardless of where it exists without changing the way users work.

TripConnect

Series A in 2006
TripConnect is an online service that allows people to get travel advice from people they know, others who share similar interests, and also from established and relevant information sources. The company's mission is to help people with the process of choosing travel destinations and hotels by presenting them with the most useful sources of information: those that they trust and those that are most relevant to their tastes and interests.

Telaria

Series A in 2006
Telaria is data-driven software platform built to monetize & manage premium video inventory with the greatest speed, and control.

Sitrion

Series D in 2006
Sitrion provides award-winning solutions for the digital workplace, making work better for working people every day. Our mobile solutions boost productivity and allow people to be more empowered, engaged, and successful. The Sitrion ONE employee app extends work directly to people’s mobile devices and unifies communications, processes, and information from business ecosystems like Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. We make work better for leading organizations, like Microsoft, Enterprise Holdings, Airbus, Fujitsu, HealthSouth, Fortune Brands, Restaurant Brands, BearingPoint and many others. Today, more than 6 million people benefit from our solutions.

Liquid Machines

Series B in 2006
Liquid Machines' Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) software provides control of electronic corporate assets throughout the information lifecycle, making users more efficient and reducing the risk of compliance violations and intellectual property leakage. Liquid Machines’ Enterprise Rights Management solutions enable organizations to persistently control access and usage of electronic information regardless of where it exists without changing the way users work.

Autonomic Networks

Series E in 2005
Autonomic Networks raises the bar for network security and compliance by automatically learning, auditing, and controlling user access to sensitive data, applications, and other assets on an enterprise network. Patent-pending risk-weighted clustering and profiling technologies automatically pinpoint the few significant incidents that require action from the multitude of questionable events that occur daily in a dynamic business environment. Risk-managed policy overrides enable business through on demand access to unexpectedly needed resources while monitoring that access for security and compliance. Autonomic Networks’ devices perform deep stream inspection with microsecond latency, eliminating the need for additional data integration or infrastructure changes. Bottom line – Autonomic Networks delivers highly adaptive access controls network security professionals need to achieve a new level of business enablement while minimizing security risks, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting against fraud and theft.

Intercasting

Series A in 2005
Intercasting is a mobile social networking company. Through its flagship ANTHEM 2.0 platform, wireless carriers and device manufacturers can add instant messaging, email, and social networking to their offerings. Founded in 2004, Intercasting was one of the first companies to deploy a carrier-grade mobile blogging and social networking application in North America with Rabble.

Tacoda

Series B in 2005
New York-based Tacoda is the worlds' largest provider of behaviorally targeted online advertising services. Through TACODA Audience Networks™, brand advertisers can reach their target audiences on premium sites at substantial scale, and do it simply and cost-effectively while generating powerful, actionable audience insights. By delivering relevant messages to more than 130 million unique users across over 3,000 individual national, regional and vertical websites, TACODA simplifies behaviorally targeted buys for brand advertisers. Virtually every top 50 online advertiser has run campaigns on TACODA-enabled websites.

AEP Networks

Venture Round in 2004
AEP Networks offers secure, optimised, end-to-end multi-bearer communication solutions. AEP's integrated portfolio of products includes identity-based network and resource access control, SSL VPNs, high assurance IPSec-based VPN encryptors, hardware security modules for key management and a range of products and communication solutions that connect remote locations with centrally-based core services. AEP Networks support a wide range of communications protocols, capable of integrating into a multitude of fixed and mobile network topologies and physical interfaces, enabling access to core voice and data services from the most extreme remote locations, where conventional communications may not be available, or where it is uneconomical to supply fixed telecom infrastructures.

Sitrion

Series B in 2004
Sitrion provides award-winning solutions for the digital workplace, making work better for working people every day. Our mobile solutions boost productivity and allow people to be more empowered, engaged, and successful. The Sitrion ONE employee app extends work directly to people’s mobile devices and unifies communications, processes, and information from business ecosystems like Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. We make work better for leading organizations, like Microsoft, Enterprise Holdings, Airbus, Fujitsu, HealthSouth, Fortune Brands, Restaurant Brands, BearingPoint and many others. Today, more than 6 million people benefit from our solutions.

Centric Software

Private Equity Round in 2004
Centric Software provides a Digital Transformation Platform for the most prestigious names in fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (VIP) is a visual, fully digital collection of boards for touch-based devices like iPad, iPhone and large-scale, touch-screen televisions. Centric VIP transforms decision making and automates execution to truly collapse time to market and distance to trend. Centric’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric 8, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, business planning, quality, and collection management functionality tailored for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric SMB packages extended PLM including innovative technology and key industry learnings tailored for small businesses. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards, including the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM in 2016 and Frost & Sullivan’s Global Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM Product Differentiation Excellence Award in 2012. Red Herring named Centric to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015, and 2016.

Tizor Systems

Series A in 2004
Tizor Systems, Inc. provides enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for monitoring and reporting data activity in the data center, databases, file servers, and mainframe applications. It offers Mantra, a network-based data auditing and protection solution that enables compliance assurance, data security, and privacy by providing data auditing, data discovery, audit reporting, theft detection, real-time alerting, and data protection. The company also offers support, education, and consulting services. Tizor Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Autonomic Networks

Series D in 2004
Autonomic Networks raises the bar for network security and compliance by automatically learning, auditing, and controlling user access to sensitive data, applications, and other assets on an enterprise network. Patent-pending risk-weighted clustering and profiling technologies automatically pinpoint the few significant incidents that require action from the multitude of questionable events that occur daily in a dynamic business environment. Risk-managed policy overrides enable business through on demand access to unexpectedly needed resources while monitoring that access for security and compliance. Autonomic Networks’ devices perform deep stream inspection with microsecond latency, eliminating the need for additional data integration or infrastructure changes. Bottom line – Autonomic Networks delivers highly adaptive access controls network security professionals need to achieve a new level of business enablement while minimizing security risks, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting against fraud and theft.

Tacoda

Series B in 2004
New York-based Tacoda is the worlds' largest provider of behaviorally targeted online advertising services. Through TACODA Audience Networks™, brand advertisers can reach their target audiences on premium sites at substantial scale, and do it simply and cost-effectively while generating powerful, actionable audience insights. By delivering relevant messages to more than 130 million unique users across over 3,000 individual national, regional and vertical websites, TACODA simplifies behaviorally targeted buys for brand advertisers. Virtually every top 50 online advertiser has run campaigns on TACODA-enabled websites.

BitPipe

Series C in 2004
Bitpipe.com is the enterprise IT professional's guide to information technology resources. Browse this free online library for the latest technical white papers, webcasts and product information to help you make intelligent IT product purchasing decisions.

SyChip

Series C in 2003
SyChip Inc. designs, develops and markets Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Chip Scale Modules for the wireless Internet appliance market. The company focuses on developing highly integrated RF modules that are differentiated because of proprietary integration, modular architectures, and low loss Silicon technologies. As a result of the proprietary silicon substrate SyChip’s RF designs are more predictable and easier to simulate, thus reducing time-to-market, increasing performance and improving reliability.

Nexaweb Inc.

Series A in 2003
Nexaweb develops software that helps companies modernize existing enterprise applications and move them to the Web. Nexaweb software is designed to address three critical issues facing companies today. These are: 1. the high cost of maintaining an application portfolio that is aging and may have tens or hundreds of applications that have redundancies or bad code picked up throughout the years; 2. The decreasing number of IT professionals that have expertise in more traditional applications such as PowerBuilder, Oracle Forms or Visual Basic. These pros have either retired or moved on to other companies and didn't leave a history of the code behind. 3. The growing interest in updating existing applications and bridging the old with the newer technologies such as Nexacro Platform.

Liquid Machines

Series A in 2002
Liquid Machines' Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) software provides control of electronic corporate assets throughout the information lifecycle, making users more efficient and reducing the risk of compliance violations and intellectual property leakage. Liquid Machines’ Enterprise Rights Management solutions enable organizations to persistently control access and usage of electronic information regardless of where it exists without changing the way users work.

Autonomic Networks

Series C in 2002
Autonomic Networks raises the bar for network security and compliance by automatically learning, auditing, and controlling user access to sensitive data, applications, and other assets on an enterprise network. Patent-pending risk-weighted clustering and profiling technologies automatically pinpoint the few significant incidents that require action from the multitude of questionable events that occur daily in a dynamic business environment. Risk-managed policy overrides enable business through on demand access to unexpectedly needed resources while monitoring that access for security and compliance. Autonomic Networks’ devices perform deep stream inspection with microsecond latency, eliminating the need for additional data integration or infrastructure changes. Bottom line – Autonomic Networks delivers highly adaptive access controls network security professionals need to achieve a new level of business enablement while minimizing security risks, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting against fraud and theft.

SyChip

Series B in 2002
SyChip Inc. designs, develops and markets Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Chip Scale Modules for the wireless Internet appliance market. The company focuses on developing highly integrated RF modules that are differentiated because of proprietary integration, modular architectures, and low loss Silicon technologies. As a result of the proprietary silicon substrate SyChip’s RF designs are more predictable and easier to simulate, thus reducing time-to-market, increasing performance and improving reliability.

College Publisher, Inc.

Series B in 2001
College Publisher, Inc. is an e-publishing group that provides publishing and marketing services in the collegiate publishing market. The company provides publishing tools such as the College Publisher, which is an online publishing technology and content management solution that has been specifically designed for student publications. It has an interactive marketing network with more than 160 school partners.

Autonomic Networks

Series B in 2001
Autonomic Networks raises the bar for network security and compliance by automatically learning, auditing, and controlling user access to sensitive data, applications, and other assets on an enterprise network. Patent-pending risk-weighted clustering and profiling technologies automatically pinpoint the few significant incidents that require action from the multitude of questionable events that occur daily in a dynamic business environment. Risk-managed policy overrides enable business through on demand access to unexpectedly needed resources while monitoring that access for security and compliance. Autonomic Networks’ devices perform deep stream inspection with microsecond latency, eliminating the need for additional data integration or infrastructure changes. Bottom line – Autonomic Networks delivers highly adaptive access controls network security professionals need to achieve a new level of business enablement while minimizing security risks, maintaining regulatory compliance, and protecting against fraud and theft.
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